Staff Platform Engineer | Observability

Gympass; EE. UU.; A distancia; USD 32.000 - 57.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Home office reimbursement

Health, dental and life insurance

Wellness platform membership for the 1

Emotional wellbeing program withTherap

Descripción de la vacante

Gympass seeks a staff platform engineer focused on observability to evolve a cloud-native monitoring ecosystem into a self-service platform for a globally distributed engineering organization. You will create golden paths that let developers instrument code quickly and gain high-fidelity signals without adding operational overhead.

The role is remote within Brazil, with home-office reimbursement and comprehensive health, dental and life insurance.

Formación

• Experience with observability tooling across metrics, logs, traces, and profiling.
• Proficiency with a major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and related ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with the listed tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).
• Proficient in at least one of Golang, Ruby, or Python.

Responsabilidades

• Own end-to-end observability stack for resilience and scalability.
• Evolve cloud-native infrastructure built on Kubernetes.
• Build abstractions and tooling to simplify observability lifecycle.
• Establish RFC-based standards and best practices.
• Address high-cardinality metrics, log retention, and distributed tracing.

Conocimientos

Observability expertise

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Kubernetes deep knowledge

Go/Python/Ruby programming

Herramientas

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Thanos

Loki

Tempo

Pyroscope

Kafka

ArgoCD

Crossplane

HashiCorp Vault

Descripción del empleo

Role overview

A staff platform engineer with a dedicated observability focus is needed to evolve a cloud-native monitoring ecosystem into a self-service platform supporting a globally distributed engineering organization. The role spans metrics, logs, traces, and profiling, with responsibility for building "golden paths" that let developers instrument code instantly and gain high-fidelity signals without operational overhead. This is a remote position based in Brazil.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of the observability stack, ensuring resilience and scalability
• Evolve and maintain cloud-native infrastructure built on Kubernetes
• Build abstractions and tooling that simplify the observability lifecycle for development teams
• Establish standards, guidelines, and best practices, formalized through processes such as RFCs
• Solve complex challenges related to high-cardinality metrics, log retention, and distributed tracing
• Code in Golang, Ruby, or Python to maintain platform products and internal tools

Requirements

• Proven experience with observability practices and tooling across metrics, logs, traces, and profiling
• Proficiency with a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystem
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Kafka, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and HashiCorp Vault
• Programming proficiency in at least one of Golang, Ruby, or Python
• Based in Brazil and eligible to work remotely within the country

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first flexibility within Brazil
• Home office reimbursement
• Health, dental, and life insurance
• Free wellness platform membership for the employee and up to three family members
• Emotional wellbeing program that includes therapy sessions and on-demand content
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off including vacation, tenure-based additional days, and a birthday holiday